The corporate world of today sounds much like the defence industry of the
90s. I worked in aerospoce in an evironment where everything was top secret
and compartmentalized. If you wrote pi=3.14 on the wrong piece of paper and
left it out over night or took it home by accident, you could end up in very
serious trouble. Computers were tempested (yuck), walls lined with carpet,
cameras everywhere, and you had to subject ot search on entry/exit if asked.
Doors opened either by badge swipe or by code. They probably scan your
eyeballs now. :)
I was glad to get out of there (in some respects, anyway, the projects were
cool) and it sounds like I'd be glad not to be corporate, too.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Reeves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 9:46 PM
Subject: Re: [H] Flash drive(s)
Eh. Part of it is what employees think they can get away with. We have
quite a few clients who go the extra length and deploy spector cne
everywhere. :)
If your in the intellectual property business you have to. If one of
their mastercam drawings left their building, there would be a rash of
quick firings. (I've been to one... Go out the night before, clean out
employee desk, call them and meet them at Denny's in the morning with a
crate of their crap.
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Anthony Q. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:45:19
To:hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Flash drive(s)
so the personal computer is truly dead.
Hayes Elkins wrote:
It's pretty much the standard corporate environment now to have a PC with
no floppy or ROM drive (or access disabled), usb ports turned off (save
for KB&M) and PCI slots disabled. Nobody 10 years ago though much of
security concerns when taking 1.44MB floppies home, but when you can put
a 32GB flash drive into a desktop and take the entire network shares with
you - it raises a red flag on just why anybody needs access to a
floppy/ROM/usb storage device in the first place.> Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008
19:35:51 -0500> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:
hardware@hardwaregroup.com> Subject: Re: [H] Flash drive(s)> > Security.
If you were using a workstation that had access to government > secrets,
health records, financial records, etc., the powers that be > would want
to ensure that a rogue worker would not come in and copy that >
information into a small, easily concealed flash drive and walk off with
> secret data.> > DHSinclair wrote:> > Ben,> > Nice. Really nice! Is
there some reason the "power's-that-be" did this? > > NO! Don't even
hazard a guess! Will get tools, will live on. Not yet > > ready to play
with "Group Policy" business, yet. I've learned that GP > > is really big
"mana" and that I am not 'read' enough to play there. > > Fine. I will
truck on. I am still a default kind of person (subject to > > M$ updates,
that is). Thanks much.> > Best,> > Duncan
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